New and emerging HDAC inhibitors for cancer treatment

AC West, RW Johnstone - The Journal of clinical …, 2014 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Epigenetic enzymes are often dysregulated in human tumors through mutation, altered
expression, or inappropriate recruitment to certain loci. The identification of these enzymes …

Chromatin dynamics: interplay between remodeling enzymes and histone modifications

SG Swygert, CL Peterson - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2014 - Elsevier
Chromatin dynamics play an essential role in regulating the accessibility of genomic DNA for
a variety of nuclear processes, including gene transcription and DNA repair. The …

[PDF][PDF] MBD3/NuRD facilitates induction of pluripotency in a context-dependent manner

RL Dos Santos, L Tosti, A Radzisheuskaya… - Cell stem cell, 2014 - cell.com
Summary The Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase (NuRD) complex is essential for
embryonic development and pluripotent stem cell differentiation. In this study, we …

[HTML][HTML] Role of BDNF epigenetics in activity-dependent neuronal plasticity

NN Karpova - Neuropharmacology, 2014 - Elsevier
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a key mediator of the activity-dependent
processes in the brain that have a major impact on neuronal development and plasticity …

Histone deacetylase (HDAC) 1 and 2 are essential for accurate cell division and the pluripotency of embryonic stem cells

S Jamaladdin, RDW Kelly, L O'Regan… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Histone deacetylases 1 and 2 (HDAC1/2) form the core catalytic components of corepressor
complexes that modulate gene expression. In most cell types, deletion of both Hdac1 and …

Genomic patterns and context specific interpretation of DNA methylation

T Baubec, D Schübeler - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2014 - Elsevier
Methylation of CpG dinucleotides is a reversible modification of DNA that is highly prevalent
throughout mammalian genomes. Recent advances generated genomic DNA methylation …

The NuRD complex cooperates with DNMTs to maintain silencing of key colorectal tumor suppressor genes

Y Cai, EJ Geutjes, K De Lint, P Roepman, L Bruurs… - Oncogene, 2014 - nature.com
Many tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) are silenced through synergistic layers of epigenetic
regulation including abnormal DNA hypermethylation of promoter CpG islands, repressive …

[PDF][PDF] Alternative splicing of MBD2 supports self-renewal in human pluripotent stem cells

Y Lu, YH Loh, H Li, M Cesana, SB Ficarro, JR Parikh… - Cell stem cell, 2014 - cell.com
Alternative RNA splicing (AS) regulates proteome diversity, including isoform-specific
expression of several pluripotency genes. Here, we integrated global gene expression and …

Chromatin features and the epigenetic regulation of pluripotency states in ESCs

WW Tee, D Reinberg - Development, 2014 - journals.biologists.com
In pluripotent stem cells, the interplay between signaling cues, epigenetic regulators and
transcription factors orchestrates developmental potency. Flexibility in gene expression …

Induced and constitutive DNA methylation in a salinity-tolerant wheat introgression line

M Wang, L Qin, C Xie, W Li, J Yuan… - Plant and Cell …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Cytosine methylation is a well recognized epigenetic mark. Here, the methylation status of a
salinity-tolerant wheat cultivar (cv. SR3, derived from a somatic hybridization event) and its …